Time on sparc

[Hauke Fath <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost>]

All,

NetBSD/sparc used to be a very good time-keeper, back in the netbsd-1-6
days. With the advent of SMP support, that changed some. Now, my two SM71
cpus have gone the way of the dodo, but the lone SM50 I have to put up with
(since NetBSD will not suffer a second one) does worse:

<snip>
Dec  9 02:06:51 pizza ntpd[3080]: kernel time sync status change 2001
Dec  9 02:12:02 pizza last message repeated 10 times
Dec  9 02:18:02 pizza last message repeated 4 times
Dec  9 02:26:21 pizza ntpd[3080]: time reset +0.201239 s
Dec  9 02:24:02 pizza last message repeated 2 times
Dec  9 02:42:03 pizza last message repeated 2 times
Dec  9 02:48:02 pizza last message repeated 2 times
Dec  9 03:02:51 pizza last message repeated 757 times
Dec  9 03:12:48 pizza last message repeated 692 times
Dec  9 03:22:35 pizza last message repeated 408 times
Dec  9 03:26:26 pizza ntpd[3080]: time reset +29.931073 s
Dec  9 03:31:46 pizza last message repeated 705 times
Dec  9 03:42:32 pizza last message repeated 262 times
Dec  9 03:45:41 pizza last message repeated 255 times
Dec  9 03:53:29 pizza ntpd[3080]: time reset +19.836859 s
Dec  9 04:00:08 pizza last message repeated 4 times
Dec  9 04:13:16 pizza last message repeated 1345 times
Dec  9 04:23:16 pizza last message repeated 694 times
Dec  9 04:30:05 pizza last message repeated 126 times
Dec  9 04:35:42 pizza ntpd[3080]: time reset +35.422732 s
Dec  9 04:43:07 pizza last message repeated 6 times
Dec  9 04:52:25 pizza last message repeated 54 times
Dec  9 04:56:02 pizza ntpd[3080]: time reset +1.006416 s
Dec  9 05:00:15 pizza last message repeated 18 times
Dec  9 05:30:02 pizza /netbsd: pmap_chk: wired count 322
Dec  9 05:40:02 pizza last message repeated 37 times
Dec  9 05:43:50 pizza ntpd[3080]: time reset +0.662746 s
Dec  9 05:50:02 pizza last message repeated 6 times
Dec  9 05:59:59 pizza ntpd[3080]: time reset +0.193544 s
Dec  9 05:51:06 pizza last message repeated 8 times
</snip>

-- almost as bad as mac68k.

This is with a custom kernel that has DEBUG, DIAGNOSTIC nad LOCKDEBUG, if
it matters, and pkg_rolling_replace(8) running.

Comments?

        hauke

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